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Archizines

The new generation of architecture magazines, fanzines and journals. Irish Architecture Foundation is delighted to present Archizines at NCAD Gallery.

Friday, 16th November - Friday, 11th January 2013

Archizines at NCAD Gallery open 1pm- 5pm Mon-Fri. Exhibition opening view 6-8pm Thursday 15th November 2012.

Invited by the Irish Architecture Foundation in partnership with NCAD Gallery, Archizines is an exhibition of over 60 publications curated by Elias Redstone, an independent curator, writer, editor and consultant based in London and Paris, that promotes the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.

The publications come from all over the world and vary in style and content. The commonality is a shared interest in documenting and discussing the spaces we occupy in printed form. The criteria for inclusion in the collection as set by Redstone is that publications must have been launched after 2000 and are still in production, that architecture and/or urbanism must be intrinsic to the publication and an alternative or independent agenda must be demonstrated. As well as adding to architectural discourse, these publications are lovingly made objects to hold and to keep.

Included are America Deserta Revisted, another pamphlet, Apartamento, Archinect News Digest, Beyond, Block, Bracket, Camenzind, Candide, Civic City Cahier, Club Donny, Conditions, Cornell Journal of Architecture, Criticat, dérive, Ein Magazin über Orte, engawa, Evil People in Modern Homes in Popular Films, face b, Foreign Architects Switzerland, Friendly Fire, Generalist, Horizonte, Junk Jet, Kerb, Le Journal Spéciale’Z, Log, MAP, Mark, MAS Context, matzine, Maximum Maxim MMX, Megawords, The Modernist, mono.kultur, Monu, no now, OASE, One:Twelve, Pablo Internacional, P.E.A.R., PIDGIN, PIN-UP, PLAT, PLOT, Preston is my Paris, Public Library, San Rocco, Scapegoat, scopio, SOILED, SPAM_mag, Thresholds, TOO MUCH, Touching on Architecture, UP, UR, VOLUME, The Weather Ring, What About It?

The IAF and NCAD have announced a design challenge sponsored by Plus Print to accompany the exhibition, please see below for more information and at http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/activities/the-zine-challenge/

The exhibition in NCAD Gallery is designed by designgoat.
Images of Archizines exhibition by Sue Barr

For more information please contact +353 (0) 1 6364390 or gallery@ncad.ie
Open Mon – Fri 1pm- 5pm, NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
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Archizines Seminar and Competition

3.00pm-5.30pm on the 15 November.
Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
Free admission, registration necessary at info@architecturefoundation.ie

You are invited to attend the Archizine Seminar to coincide with the Archizines exhibition.

This is a unique opportunity to hear from Elias Redstone, the curator of Archizines, and Tom Keeley, London, co-editor of Go and the editor of America Deserta Revisited about why independent publishing is important, and the concept of the fanzine as a kind of architectural production and practice, presenting also is Lisa Cassidy from Dublin, who has been making zines and other lo-fi print projects for about a decade, loosely combining personal narrative and an obsession with cities, towns, and mapping.

During the Archizine Seminar the Irish Architecture Foundation will launch a design competition in partnership with NCAD and sponsored by Plus Print. Teams from art, architecture, graphic design and curating are invited to develop a prototype archizine during an 8-week period. Submissions to the competition will be assessed in January and the winning prototype will go into production. This in-kind sponsorship prize is valued at approximately €1,000.

The purpose of the competition is to enhance the volume of architectural discourse, to critically engage a common ground and popular culture of publishing within architecture. The subject matter and content must be related to architecture, which can include research, spatial practice, art, built environment, social, urban, political and related issues.

The competition will be introduced and a briefing given by Nathalie Weadick, Director, Irish Architecture Foundation and Alex Milton, Head of Design, NCAD.

It is not mandatory you attend the seminar in order to enter the competition, but you may find it useful and interesting. The brief will not be released until the 15th of November, for those who are unable attend the seminar you will be able to download the brief on that date at info@architecturefoundation.ie.